![]() The platform will bar games that earn Adults Only ratings, as well as ones that include "hateful or discriminatory content pornography illegal content content that infringes on intellectual property you do not own or have rights to use." Epic will also pay for free age-rating services for EGS games through the International Age Rating Coalition and provide free localization for game description pages on its storefront.īut while Steam says it allows anything short of illegal content and trolling on its store (at least ostensibly), Epic lays out a few basic content requirements for games that want to be listed on EGS. ![]() That lines up with the stand Epic has taken in its long-running battle with Apple over allowing such third-party payments on iOS. The Epic Games Store also allows developers to use third-party or developer-controlled payment tools for in-app purchases, letting those publishers "receive 100 percent of the revenue" from those purchases if they so choose. It will also allow many more developers to take advantage of Epic's heavily promoted 12 percent cut of sales revenues, as opposed to Steam's 30 percent standard. Today's self-publishing expansion will likely lead to an explosion of new titles appearing on the Epic Games Store, much as Steam's 2017 opening of "Steam Direct" publishing led to a vast increase in the number of annual releases on that platform. "So it's going to be driven by quality."Įpic has been building toward a more open store for a while, though, launching self-publishing as a limited closed beta in mid-2021 and just barely missing a 2022 goal to open the system up to everyone. "We're not going to be that sort of venue because we don't think we can help those games to reach users," Sweeney told Ars in 2019. But those games have been selected by Epic for inclusion based on a "high quality standard," as Epic's Tim Sweeney put it to Ars in 2019, leading to the publication of a number of "how to get published on the Epic Games Store" tutorials. Further Reading Epic CEO: “You’re going to see lower prices” on Epic Games StoreSince its late-2018 launch with a small, curated selection of games, the Epic Games Store has slowly expanded to include nearly 2,000 titles.
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